Sentence examples for public probity from inspiring English sources

Creditors could make successive tranches dependent on continuing progress towards fiscal conservatism and public probity.

And it is true that, in general, standards of public probity are higher the farther north you go.

On 9 June, a group of lawyers led by David Mendes and Luis Nascimento challenged the manner of her appointment, saying it went against public probity laws.

But he rode to power on promises of private piety, public probity and wealth redistribution that recall the fervour of the revolution of 1979, which overthrew the shah and brought Ayatollah Khomeini and his Islamist allies to power.

It was once called a city of "public probity and private vice" and this still rings true, though the "probity" tag has lost some lustre since the near-collapse of Royal Bank of Scotland, one of the city's biggest employers.

LONDON — Throughout the long months of the Leveson inquiry into the behavior and standards of the British press, the riddle that permeated its scrutiny of the nation's newspapers was this: If journalists cast themselves as protectors of public probity, who guards the guardians?

"We had wanted to eyeball him," a public servant conducting probity on the bids told us at the time.

All this from a man who was the public face of probity in the second chamber – he was chair of the privileges and conduct committee, which rules on disciplinary matters and can recommend the suspension of peers.

The answers are many and various, today's investigation into his activities at Stoke Mandeville concludes, before adding that "one of the most compelling is quite simply that the basic building blocks of legislation, policy and procedure designed to maintain both public safety and probity were bypassed".

However, improvements to its political system and to its standards of probity in public life are equally vital yet much less likely.

Everywhere citizens seem to want better government, probity in public office, honest leaders and a state that cares for rather than oppresses its people.